Friday, June 21, 2013

I am currently doing two icons of saints that have scrolls in their hands. For one, all images I can find of him are in either Slavonic or Greek. Another icon I'm painting also has a scroll but it is in French! Anyway, it's taken me awhile to find a person to translate the French (two people actually) and through a little back and forth, we came up to a translation that fits the saint. For the other icon I searched the Prologue of Ochrid to read up on the Saint and found a quote that can be attributed to him. Further internet googling gave me another quote similar to the one in the Prologue. I don't know if it is "kosher" but the person who commissioned the icon liked the quote and that is what will go onto the scroll. I'm gonna send this off to ether land and see if this can be a beginning of a conversation.

Does anyone have any other ideas of where to find inscriptions and their translations? I know there are resources out there but I have my suspicions they are in the iconography studios of Orthodox monasteries.